Focus group discourses in a mined landscape

Land Use Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 304-312

  Collier, Marcus J ^a   Scott, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Focus groups; Landscape perception; Participation; Peat mining; Qualitative methodology

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MINING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PEATLAND; PERCEPTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70449629647     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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